Word: screens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reasonable probability" existing 30 years later. And such observers, even while agreeing that Jencks had a case for challenging the fairness of his trial, nonetheless felt that the Supreme Court majority had ignored the specific issues placed before it (e.g.: Should a trial judge be required to screen FBI reports for use as evidence?) to reach for a chance to lay down a sweeping rule...
...Edgar Hoover, may "allege crimes of a most despicable type, and the truth or falsity of these charges may not emerge until several reports are studied, further investigation made and the wheat separated from the chaff." The usual court practice has therefore been for the trial judge to screen the reports as to their relevance and competence before turning them over to the defense for use in crossexamination. The judge-as-screener procedure was what the Jencks defense asked at the trial. Government attorneys were willing to go along. But District Court Judge Robert E. Thomason refused, without giving...
...Your Iron Curtain." They warmed him up with questions on Soviet agriculture. A Foreign Ministry interpreter at his side whispered the questions in Russian, and another off-screen kept a sentence behind him in English over his electronically muted replies. Khrushchev, who has never appeared on Russian TV, sat calmly at his desk with his hands folded, grew more animated when the talk shifted to the U.S.-Russian tension. He jabbed his finger didactically as he prophesied that "your grandchildren in America will live under Socialism." A metal tooth often glinted at the corner of a cunning smile...
...John .Cassavetes made a winning Dexter, "unconsciously dictated to by his winter dreams" of glittery things. Fitzgerald said Judy always "looked as if she wanted to be kissed," and TV took that as a cue, produced some of the longest kisses ever to singe the home screen...
Indeed, TFTAAFR is to all intents and purposes a silent film. Most of the time the actors play in pantomime, and the sound track is occupied by an off-screen voice which bears the same relation to the film as an M.C. to a series of blackouts. At least half the movie is made up of wacky little vaudeville routines, in which a stock Englishman and a stock Frenchman alternate the pratfalls. Major (ret.) William Marmaduke Thompson, C.S.I., D.S.O., O.B.E. (played by Jack Buchanan, the British George M. Cohan), is a cuff-shooting old harrumph who has left his best...